Marge Grospitch’s letter (“Court beholden to Trump,” Our Readers’ Views, July 5) illustrates several of my concerns with voters in the United States.
Ms. Grospitch states: “Did we really believe the United States Supreme Court justices would vote against Trump in the immunity case when their jobs would be on the line if he became president again? Vengeance is a big deterrent.”
To quote Section III, Article I of the U.S. Constitution: “The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges … shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.”
Obviously, Ms. Grospitch is ignorant of the fact Supreme Court judges hold life tenure, subject only to “good behavior.” Therefore, sitting federal justices, judges and magistrates are not subject to dismissal.
It is a travesty that a citizen of the United States would fail a basic question regarding the federal judiciary asked of any foreign citizen seeking United States citizenship.
